Connected to Places and Objects: Family, Loss and Belonging in Wes Anderson's Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited, and Moonrise Kingdom

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Literary Studies (MA)

Jansen, Vita (2022)

Connected to Places and Objects: Family, Loss and Belonging in Wes Anderson's Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited, and Moonrise Kingdom

Master thesis | Literary Studies (MA)

This thesis explores the themes of family, loss and belonging in Wes Anderson's Rushmore (1998), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), and Moonrise Kingdom (2012). The thesis connects objects and places within these films to the abovementioned themes, and shows parallels between the use of objects in these films and the way in which objects are used in George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss (1860) - objects have a multiplicity of functions in both. Key to Anderson's films are relations between characters, and objects and places in the films signify these bonds. In the end, the characters in the films find a place to belong in the other.

The Darjeeling Limited